Washington Capitals vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, March 21, 1985 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Thursday, March 21, 1985 at Montreal Forum. The Canadiens outshot the Capitals 29–18.
Goals came from Bob Gainey, Alfie Turcotte, Bobby Carpenter, Mike Gartner and Guy Carbonneau.
Steve Penney made 16 saves on 18 shots for the win; Pat Riggin stopped 26 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Bob Gainey (19)Lucien DeBlois (7)0–100:14 MTL
Alfie Turcotte (6)Lucien DeBlois (8), Chris Chelios (51)0–218:09 MTL ·
2nd period
Bobby Carpenter (50)Scott Stevens (40), Mike Gartner (48)1–215:24 WSH · 
Mike Gartner (45)Bobby Carpenter (40)2–218:02 WSH
3rd period
Guy Carbonneau (20)Chris Chelios (52)2–314:11 MTL
Team stats
WSHMTL
1829
0%0%
1/31/1
610
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:43 into the first period
Mark Hunter · slashing2 min - 17:06 into the first period
Bobby Gould · hooking2 min - 7:35 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · holding2 min
- 14:35 into the second periodRyan Walter · holding2 min
- 16:33 into the second periodMats Naslund · roughing2 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDoug Jarvis · holding2 min
- 7:01 into the third periodRyan Walter · roughing2 min
- 7:01 into the third periodRod Langway · roughing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Gary SampsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Mark TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Peter AnderssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | L | 29 | 3 | .897 |
| 35Al JensenG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 8Alfie TurcotteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Ron FlockhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Steve PenneyG | W | 18 | 2 | .889 |